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date: 08 February 2025

Joseph Goebbels 1897–1945
German Nazi leader 

  1. We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
    speech in Berlin, 17 January 1936; see Goering
  2. Making noise is an effective means of opposition.
    Ernest K. Bramsted Goebbels and National Socialist Propaganda 1925–45 (1965)